STR Invests in Teledyne and Valeport Products

Subsea Technology & Rentals Ltd (STR) continues to grow its rental equipment inventory with the addition of the new, automated sound velocity profiling system developed by Teledyne Oceanscience using Valeport's RapidSV Profiler.

Teledyne’s rapidCAST and Valeport’s SVT Probe, purchased during the Ocean Business 2017 exhibition in Southampton, will be the latest products to join STR’s range of sensor deployment and handling systems.

The rapidCAST System has the ability to collect and transmit survey data without having to recover the probe on board at the end of each cast making any profiling exercise far more efficient. It also improves the targeting accuracy of probes as the need for conducting cable is removed.

The rapidCAST uses the Valeport rapidSV profiler with Bluetooth wireless telemetry to automatically upload each SV profile to the survey PC on the completion of each cast, without the need for the probe to be recovered onboard. As the probe nears the ship, the Bluetooth antenna is activated and the data uploaded with the probe immediately ready for the next cast.